During a court hearing in Oakland , California , it ’s come to light that , between 2007 and 2009 , Apple deleted tracks downloaded from rival music services off of iPods .
accord to lawyer Patrick Coughlin , substance abuser who download euphony from other services and then tried to sync them to their iPod using iTunes would receive an error notification . That substance told the user they had to restore the factory options — and when they did so , Apple delete the trail in the process . Coughlin claims that the mistake mechanism was put in place so that Apple could “ not … tell apart user the job . ”
Apple ’s defense , from its protection conductor Augustin Farrugia ? It did n’t need to furnish a more detailed account because : “ We do n’t necessitate to give users too much selective information , we do n’t want to fuddle users . ”
The suit is base on claims that Apple had stifled challenger in the digital music industriousness , with $ 350 million in damages sought . The character continues , with Eddy Cue and Phil Schiller expected to testify by and by this week . [ WSJ ]
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